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Can't and won't

ID 287987
Slug cant-and-wont-3
Contributors
Annotation
Description Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories. With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in this new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising. Above all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage.
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301 Literaire roman, novelle NUR
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Publisher St.Martin's Press
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Language eng
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Publication date first 2015-04-01
Publication date latest 2015-04-01
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  • ISBN: 9781250062437 (BC)

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